Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-05
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.

Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
left Washington on the 25th for the South,
to be gone about ten days.
MULDROw, Acting Secretary OF the Inte-
rior, has declined the request of Frederick
"A. Babcock, assignee OF the Baton Rouge
81 Vicksburg Railroad Company, to sus-
pend the issuance of patents to the New
Orleans Pacific Railroad Company to lands
known as the Backbone grant''-pending
the termination OF certain suit against the
latter company.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed customs officers that imported or
reimported liquors withdrawn for consump-
ton after having been warehoused are
subject to duty on the quantity offered for
warehouse, and not on that ascertained on
withdrawal for consumption
THE post-off1ce inspectors during March
made 81 arrests of persons charged with
criminal offenses.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has addressed q
letter to the Secretary of the Interior on
the sequestration OF public lands by rail
roads.
MINISTER ROMERO, of Mexico, was re-
9th.
THE new Venezuelan Minister, Senior Oil
varria, was formally presented to the
President on the 2Sth.
The President has issued a proclamation
suspending discriminating charges against
vessels from the Netherlands and Dutch
East Indies.
THE EAST.
IT is reported in Rome that Rev. DR.. Nc
Glynn, of New York, will be suspended
from his pastoral functions.
THE other morning fire broke out in the
four story building of Willis Bros, gro
GERS, corner of Lacock and Cory streets,
Allegheny, Pa. Eleven persons were in
the building. Three OF them were serious
1y injured by jumping from window and
two by suffocation, while Sophie Bollen
was burned or smothered to death.
VERY good limitations of the elevated
roads and Brooklyn bridge tickets were is
sued in New York the other day as adver-
tisements and many of them were put into
the ticket boxes and served as genuine.
When the police went to look for the adver
tiser they could not find him.
THE silversmiths employed by the Cor
ham Manufacturing Company of Provi-
dence, r. L, have voted to disband their as
sembly.
THE New York City treasury was en-
riched on the 25th to the extent of s., SOC, 900
by the payment of personal taxes to that
amount by shareholders of the various
banks in compliance with recent decision
of the United States Supreme Court.
JUDGE ANDREWS in the New York Su-
preme Court confirmed the findings OF the
jury to the effect that Mary Minnie Clark
was not entitled to a divorce from Hercules
L. Kittson, whom she claimed to have
married because at the time he was under
the influence of liquor. The Judge annulled
the marriage.
The flint glass manufacturers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have refused to grant the de-
mands of the mixers and teasers for a ten
per cent. advance in wages.
DISTRICT Assembly 1885, Knights of Labor,
has had its charter suspended because the
members refused to strike VIXEN ordered to
do so by Committeeman Bailey. The
trouble arose over fight with District AS
sembly 40.
A LOADED coal train of sixty cars ran
away near Bradford, Pa, recently, wreck
ing all the cars and injuring two brake
men.
THE Pennsylvania Company's new tariff,
which, in connection with that of the Tole-
do, Peoria & w estern to Keokuk, Burling-
ton and East St. Louis, made freight rates
lower by thirty per cent. than via Chicago,
has been rescinded. The Rock Island and
the Alton roads had threatened to retaliate
reached on the Pennsylvania lines.
THE Massachusetts Railroad Commits
sioners have declared the railroad officials
to be responsible for the Bussey bridge dis
aster near Boston, by which so many lives
were lost.
JOHN DALTON, a youth of twenty, who
works in a printing office in New York and
lives in Brooklyn, jumped from the Brook
iyn bridge at a point near the pier on the
V0rly os6 DO @,olr
up apparently unhurt by the crew of pass
ing lighter
HHE Printing and Bleaching Company's
mills, in the village of Brookdale, West
Chester County, N. ". were burned the
other morning. Loss, S150,OO0. Four cylin-
der drying cans exploded, blowing down
the walls and creating panic in the neigh
borhood. No one was injured.
FIVE miners were suffocated to death re-
Gently in the Tunnel colliery, near Ash
land, Pa Four of them left widows and
children.
THE Americas Club gave banquet at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, in honor of
the late General Grants sixty-fifth birth
day.
in Pittsburgh, Pa, have taken the places of
the men who walked out against the St.
Louis patterns.
IT is reported in the East that several of
the Western roads have issued passes since
the Commerce law went into effect.
THE WEST.
THE Illinois House has passed the Senate
resolution inviting the American Forestry
Congress to hold its session of September
next in Springfield, Ill.
THE Winnebago and Crow creek settlers
resolved to go quietly as soon as the soldiers
came, but to return as soon as the soldiers
left.
A FIRE involving loss of over $50, 900
started recently from some unknown cause
In the upper part of Dearborn street, Chi
cago, occupied by the Shniedwend & Lee
Co.. stereotypers and wholesale dealers in
int rraafarialS